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?<)KYP, — The annual New Year Imperial Poetry
fitojl^^^ held recently at the Imperial Palace in
presence of the Emperor .and the Empress.
™ t was-also attended by the Crown Prince and Prins Michiko and other members of the Imperial Famas well as some 100 others, including 11 persons
o submitted prize winning poems.
'■—A total of 38,900 poems were submitted by the
leral public, both in Japan and abroad, for this year’s
—Uhd poetry theme was “hoshi,” (star).
id ni^^trere no winners from Canada or the United

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Mdi^ffigl^b-syliable tanka poems submitted by the 11

winners, including that of Kiyomi Takasugi, 5S,
prize winners
a blind masseur from Hokkaido, were recited first.
The poems of the Imperial Famin’- members wer
then read.
The party came to a close after the poem of the
Empress was recited twice and that of the Emperor
three times.
anMeanwhile, the Imperial Household Agency
nounced recently that the theme of next year’s poetry
would be “hana’ (flower).
An .applicant must write his poem with a calligraphy
brush on a sheet of “hanshi” (Japanese writing' paper).
Applicants from abroad, however, can write poems
on any kind of paper and with writing implements

other than brushes.
The poems should be submitted to the Imperial
Household Agency in Chyokoda Ward, Tokyo, between
The time honored ceremony was initiated during
the Kamakura period (1192-1333). In 1869, it was established as an annual court function to be observed at
the beginning of the year.
Unofficial translations of the poems are:
Emperor Hirohito’s poem
In the dark sky of springOut comes a comet, glittering
As the roaring thunder afar
Fades into the distant clamor.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1969

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This week we continue our series entitled “Nisei In Europe”
:A~ New; Canadian writer Thomas T. Mitsunaga .of Lethbridge, AltaM-ta on his impressions of his recent visit to Europe.

By THOMAS T. MITSUNAGA

The city of Luxembourg was a pleasant place to stop for
A inch. The principal tongue spoken here is French but German,
Tsu .tch, ‘ Flemish and a polygot are spoken too. Again the number
" tourists was crushing and for the first time we saw many
““iropeah travellers speaking languages which were immediately
__ reigh-Jo our ears. It was in Luxemburg that we were first in“~:)duced to “veal” but it is not the veal that Canadians are used
having. This meat is obtained from animals which are much
^ler_,and was to become, in the days ahead a fare which many
A. usigrew very weary of. My knowledge of French, such as it was,
is- becoming a decided asset in communicating. English was
id
pidly.' becoming a foreign tongue.



Just a few miles outside the city of Luxembourg is the Ameri-

Memorial donated by the grateful citizens of the city
■American servicemen of World War Two, Here hundred's of
lite crosses mark the final resting places of American, French,
ilgian..and English soldiers. A special grave at the head of these
osses- marks the burial place of General George C. Patton, old
food and guts”, the most famous tank commander in the American
my.- He lies buried here at his own request after he was killed
a jeep accident in the closing days of the European conflict,
was'a coincidence that I was reading “Ordeal and Triumph” at
ci

e time.
We crossed the River Moselle into Germany and negotiated

e famous German autobahn. Very soon we also crossed the
ighty? Rhine but on this day it did not look very appealing for

^ was^dirty and rain had begun to fall. My thoughts of the auto^thiiynbw bring back only memories of rain. By the time we reachI-’Mannheim it was pouring. The windows became fogged and
e-.bus roof started to leak. Water started to drain down onto
earing apparel and parcels and the passengers started to comain^y the time we got to Heidelberg, the city of the Student
rince,V there was so much rain and the skies were so dark, you
mid riot see anything of the town and everyone was disappointed,
ut it} was oil to the small German town of Offenau where our
)tel$reservations had been booked. We arrived at Hotel Linde at
p.m!,- hungry and distraught. We gathered in the hotel bar while
ir-bags were unloaded and soothed our frayed nerves with cold
erman beer. It was 10:45 p.m. bv the time supper was finished.
No one wanted to go to bed that night for somehow everyone
sit triat we had been cheated out of an afternoon by the rain and

ie;^ing bus ride. By chance this was Saturday night and there
as .a^dance going on at the hotel. It was a beautiful dance with
goal band and the German girls were friendly but there was
•great language barrier and all we could do was to smile at them,
he 'one big consolation was the immaculate room with plenty
f clean towels and the thick down comforter was a godsend
Eterfia cold damp day. Soft rain was still falling as we closed the
rutters of our I'oom. So it was off to dreamland deep in the hearsokl/pf Europe.

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' - Rain had not stopped by morning and as the bus rolled at
tlieyhotel staff stood and bade us goodbye. In no other country
id we experience the courtesy which we received from the Germans,
udwigsburg Schloss (castle), the finest in Germany was nearby.
; looked somewhat less splendid than it would otherwise be in
le rain which was falling. The richly embellished interiors were
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STRENGTH FOR THE
BRIDGE
A story of J.C.’s By
JESSIE L. BEATTIE

(Cont. on Page 8)

Education More Vital Than Jobs
For Japanese, Says Van. DBC Prof
sumer credit and helps the average Japanese
worker to save 20 percent of his earnings to supplement meagre pensions.
In a speech titled The Japanese Miracle, Howse
said that the country’s gross national product has
risen nine percent annually during the past de­
cade.
The people are subjected to a policy of bettering
every achievement, regardless of how substantial
the previous achievement was.
The major political threat in the country is the
possiblity that the economy may collapse, Howes
said.
“How long will they be satis­
fied with striving to beat out
other nations?”
The major economic problem
is
maturity of the economy and
he
began

shouting
and
hollering
SAN FRANCISCO. — Race
prejudice
does n’t constitute racist epithets” at his bride. And, “a hardening of the imagina­
grounds for an annulment—if you the complaint said, Mrs. Ellis tion.”
The professor, who spent nine
learned that her husband “har­
put up with it too long.
years
in Japan after specializing
bored
a
long
standing
virulent
This was the opinion recently
in
that
nation’s affairs, said the
hatred
of
the
Japanese
people
and
of Superior Judge Raymond J.
Arata in refusing to grant an Japanese women in particular.” Second World War benefited Ja­
annulment to a Japanese wait­
Judge Arata, hearing all this pan, even though it lost. It was
ress.
in court, asked why Mrs. Ellis given low-cost food loans, tech­
Mrs. Midori Mori Prescott Ellis had not left her bridgroom as nical aid and information about
said in a. complaint for annulment soon as she learned she had been the latest techniques in business
by Americans.
that her husband',
Leonard, a deceived ?
Thus in rebuilding the coun­
sheet metal worker, told her be­
Because of an old Japanese
fore the walk to the altar that custom, her attorney Gerald try and its industry after the
war Japan had available the
he “had many years longed and Glass, told the judge.
latest machines, methods and
desired to marry a woman of
In Japan, Glass said, a woman know-how. One of the best ex­
the Japanese race.
“' . . . and although he was a wouldn’t dream of leaving her amples of how this helped Japan
Caucasian he had a great and husband until his debts were paid, was the development of its out­
enduring love for the Japanese so Mrs. Ellis worked as a wait­ standing merchant marine.
ress until the couple got out of
But Howes, pointing to econom­
people.”
ic maturity as a threat to furth­
He iced the cake with promises the red.
Judge Arata conceded that Mrs. er industrial development, noted
of taking her to Japan to visit
Ellis
probably had grounds for that the last contract for a super­
her family, the complaint con­
divorce,
and he suggested that tanker went to Britain and not
tinued.
But in fact one week after tire her attorney amend the com­ Japan, the nation which has led
the way in that field.
Reno ceremony in August, 196i, plaint.
He said Japan will remain re­
liant on trading partners because
it lacks raw materials needed in
industry. But these partners
should acquire a knowledge of
the Japanese language and not
TOKYO. — The study of as­ used principally by junior high leave the burden of language­
learning entirely to the Japa­
tronomy has become extremely and high school students.
Telescopes in this price range nese.
popular recently among Japanese
Howes said there is more scien­
people including children, with enable the users to clearly view
the intensification in the space lunar craters and the surface of tific information published in Ja­
panese than all other languages
exploration between the United Jupiter.
Telescopes priced at 100,000 except English, Russian and pos­
States and the Soviet Union.
Sales of astronomical tele­ yen (about $280) and above also sibly German.
scopes are increasing at a sharp are popular among amateur as­
rate, and demand has been rising tronomers.
steadily since public schools
According to department
started to use them as study ma­ stores, the diffusion rate of astro­
terial.
nomical telescopes is still low.
Sales increased nearly two­ with only two or three junior
fold, especially after the Soviet high and high school students per
VANCOUVER. — The mayor
Union and the U.S. succeeded in 100 owning them.
the softlanding of unmanned
of
Yokohama, Ichio Asukata, will
They believe an ever bigger
space vehicles on the moon’s sur­ boom will be stirred up when be invited to attend opening ce­
face in 1966.
man succeeds in landing on the remonies of the 1969 Pacific Na­
tional Exhibition in Vancouver.
Astronomical telescopes are be­ moon.
PNE president Hedley Fairing sold at department stores
Exports of telescopes also are bank said in the letter that di­
and at jewelry stores. Those
priced between 30,000 yen and increasing. Some 100.000 includ­ rectors hope the fair will have
50,000 yen (about $84 and 140) ing toy ones, were exported last a Japanese theme this year to
honor Expo 70 in Japan.
are most popular, and are being year.

VANCOUVER.—Seven jobs await each Japanee
youth when he finishes his compulsory school pro­
gram at Grade 9 but 80 percent of them continue
their education, a meeting of the Vancouver In­
stitute was told recently.
The result, said Dr. John Howse, an associated
professor at UBC’s department of Asian studies,
is highly competent and literate work force.
He said that while Japan suffers from a labor
shortage, working conditions are good.
Among the benefits is a semi-annual bonus of
as much as 25 percent and sometimes 100 percent
or more of an employee’s annual income. This
extra cash retires the country’s amount of con-

Race Prejudice No Divorce Grounds

| Moon Viewing ‘Boomu’ In Japan

Japanese Mayor
Is Invited To
Vancouver PNE

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Ancient Documents Reveal Discrimination

Dates And Doings

bar# the RIGHT POLICY
Comult

-’^QSAKA. — Documents describ- 600,000 yen last year. It will be
William Wales Ltd.
— ...................
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A ingy .unbelief able class discrim- published shortly in 12 volumes. *■..... .....
i 'Aination 300 years ago in. MinamiInsurance Agents
Minami-0 ji Vilage, situated in
pOji, Village in southern Osaka Izumi City, developed in the lat­ JCC Centre Sakura-Kai To Entertain New Citizens
464 Yonge Street, Toronto
-Prefecture, have been made pub- ter part of the Heian Period.
TORONTO.— The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s Sa­
lic^by Hisao Okura, 71, dentist
Phone 921-3171
The village people were serv- kura-kai, under Mrs. Irene Tsujimoto,' will entertain new Canadian
and-keeper of the documents of
ants of the
Shonoda Myojin citizens at a reception to be held at the City Hall on the evening
Izumi City.
Shrine
and
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workers
and were of February 5. The program will begin ■with a colorful R.C.M.P.
A&The “Okuda Family Docusubjected
to
shocking
discrinu- (Mountie) escorting the group to the platform, After a welcome
'rhents'’ were penned by headmen
Residential Painting
of: the vilage from the beginning nation.
speech by the Mayor, the Sakura dancers are expected to give
The
records
refer
to
the

Hitoof-<the Tokugawa Period to the
And Decorating
tsubashi riot'1 which occurred in two or three performances.
twenties of the Meiji Era.
1782.
The evening is sponsored by the Citizenship and CanadianizaOkuda made the material pubBy
Farmers at 54 villages in the tion Department of the Toronto District, Woman ’s Christian Tern, lic'prior to its publication by the Senshu (southern Osaka) area
Osaka
Prefectural
Education ruled by Lord Hitotsubashi re- perance Union, a world organization, which held its convention, in
> Board and the Osaka
Outcast sorted to riotous action in protest Tokyo last summer. — J.C.C. Centre
I
Villages Study Institute.
against heavy land taxes. Three
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J.yOn more than 200,000 pages persons were executed.
•are> recorded1 administrative, fi­
Ninety-five persons in Mina- Tor. Japanese Language School Dance March 15
nancial, commercial, industrial mi-Oji Village were punished' in
TORONTO. — The Toronto Japanese Language School PTA
4 arid religious
activities of the connection with the riot.
AUTO — FIRE — LIFE
is
sponsoringa d'ance in aid of the Toronto Japanese Lang’uage
village.
The
documents
also
disclosed
,
ALL FORMS
UN r
School on March 15 1969 at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
_i„Okuda kept the records in 10
that
the
village
was
in
a
bad
OF
wooden boxes under the floor of
w.,
from 8 p.m. Music will be provided hy the Mogambo band and a
plight
in
1844
with
a
rice
harvest
a/storeroom at his home since
Jnt
well rounded program promises an exciting- evening-.
i
hejinherited them from his grand- totaling only 146 koku (one ko>005 ■
ku
equivalent
to
4.96
bushels).
The Kisaragi Club, which has aided the school in the past, has
;'father in 1921.
i
commit
’’‘In 1947, Professor Yoshinori Most of the villagers had no farm­ ag-reed' to back the PTA in this venture.
land.
, Morita of Osaka Education Univ­
/
KIYO TAMURA
Tickets at $2 per person are now being sold by the PTA execu­
ersity and historian Ryoichi Oka- - Their* residential tracts were tives, Kisaragi members and various other organizations. Here is
TORONTO
smoto asked Okuda to make the severely restricted in size despite a chance for one and all to support this worthwhile cause and have
Bus. 366-5812 Res. Pl. 9-8317
s documents public but he stub- an increase of population. The
village had 661 inhabitants in fun at the same time!
.;bornly refused.
1 "Prof. Morita and five other 1750 and 1,813 a decade later.
The documents recorded cases
-authorities on “outcast” village
Bu»i 824-8153
Reel 922-1353
repeatedly asked Okuda to re­ of death from hunger and cold. Sumie Awards Given At J.C. Cultural Centre
consider, and he finaly consent- Eighty-three village people died
31
TORONTO.
of starvation and cold in 1850.
Mr. Taiichiro Kadoguchi (85 year old Issei)
ed.
Okuda
and others
secretly
The village was also stripped became one of the four Sumie pupils who were awarded the han
ERNEST JOMORI
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established the Okuda Family of its right to use an agricul­ (seal) and g'ago (nom de plume) from Mrs. Ruth Yamada, instruc­
Chartered Accountant
Documents Study Council in Oc- tural pond by other villages in
'tober 1966.
the latter part of the Tokugawa tor at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. Mrs. Yamada con­
ducts classes for over 40 students at the Cultural Centre.
They spent a considerable Period.
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amount
of
money
and
a
year
Along
with
Mr.
Kadoguchi
(who
w.as
awarded
the

gago

of
The
village
built
a
shrine
in
TORONTO
n
arid a half to copy and classify the Bunsei Era (1821-28) but ICHIMISITIN (tasteful), Mrs. Fumiko Nikaido, who is well-known 11 130 BLOOR ST. W.
the material.
the Government ordered the
L
- The Osaka Prefectural Library leaders of the village punished for her art in calligraphy, was given the name of SEN-STUN (pu­
showed keen interest in the work for the project, the documents rity). Others were Miss Doris Chappell AI-JITSU-CHO (sun-in­
and bought the material for 3,- also said.
spired), Mrs. Cathy Caution SHI-KIN-SEI (peaceful). This brings
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Framing
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graduates, including
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Wednesday, January i96j

Nisei In Europe . . .

(Cont. From Page 1)

The New Canadiar,

something else again. A creation of Duke Ludwig von Wuerttem­ Along winding streets, there are houses with flower boxes dis­
berg, the castle is the most famous baroque residence in all of played for the passerby and again the paintings done on the walls
and tor payment of postage ^ Germany. It was finished in 1733. The chapel, theatre and the can be seen. In a little shop, I found a rugged mountain scene
'™r°r ro°m s^and out in retrospect. The latter room was entirely done in oils that I wanted to buy but I was unable to as the shop
filled with mirrors and from a peep hole in the floor in one was still closed at that time in the morning. Mountains were on
corner of the room, the Duke could see into the bedchambers of his all sides for we were in the heart of the Bavarian Alps. The air
$
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female court visitors. The manicured lawns outside were the finest
was refreshingly crisp and clear and the streams by the roadside
istd
have seen anywhere. Talking about superlatives, the German
were sparkling as they caught the sun’s rays and the waters were
। w
UMEZUKIE?ft,
Publish^
hot dogs which I procured outside the palace were simply delicious.
KEI T.TSUMURA
cold.
‘S’1
Lunch was taken in a small German town whose name escapes
The caravan entered mountainous Austria in mid morning and
KEN MORI Japanese e£ci‘ Or
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my memory but Queen Mary, the mother of George VI had been Joe pointed out a nondescript house where Hitler had been born.
And Advertising.
>me
born here. It was in this town I recall I made a hurried dash to
SUBSCRIPTION
Zirl Pass, the steepest in Austria was safely negotiated and we
$4.00 per 6 months
an Esso station to get a German road map. In Europe one pays
nits
$7.00 pel yeajM
entered the Austrian Tyrol of 'which Innsbruck is the capital.
for road maps and you can imagine my surprise when I was re­
nd
Just prior to entering Innsbruck, near Zirl, is a high mountain peak
479
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ST.
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primanded by the attendant for walking off without paying for it
on which a monument can be seen from the valley. This monument
Toronto 2-B, Ont.
A1
Picturesque German villages passed by all afternoon and in is the memorial to the U.S. team which crashed on the peak killing
EMpire 6-5005
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afternoon’. the city of Augsburg, the former home of the all members back in 1963.
f tl
famed Messerschmidt showed on our right. The huge complex is
"ie”'’
Innsbruck, where the last winter Olympics were held is a
lme
geared to the manufacture of peacetime goods. In this part
crowded
city.
The
streets
were
jammed
with
tourists
and
one
could
Hill
of Germany which is called Bavaria, the farm houses have barns
attached to them, an arrangement which strikes a discordant note hardly make his way through some of them. The high mountains
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o North American viewers. The churches domed roofs reflecting surrounding the town was the locale for the mountain scenes in
the
motion
picture,
THE
SOUND
OF
MUSIC.
The
sun
was
very
Eastern Orthodox influence.
OPERATORS
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T0destinatlno for the night was the famous prison town
ley, 96 Spadina Ave., Toronto, 8th floor.
we had to pick up beverages to drink on the Brenner Pass. The
of Landsberg. A few miles outside the city centre the huge grey
SERGER button sewer. Experienced r
bus made a stop at a mountain inn where the guide picked up 50 nr
dlns d,resses. Apply Miss Sun Valle-,prison can be seen, a prison which held captive Adolph Hitler
bag lunches for the passengers. The Brenner Pass which connects 96 Spadina Ave., Toronto, Sth fW'
during his rise in the German heirarchy. Nearbv is the cemetery
Austria and Italy is so steep and narrow that there are no stops BLINDSTICH buttonhole operator Ex
where many famous war criminals are buried. The houses in Lands
which can handle a huge bus such :as ours. Consequently we ate perienced for ladies dresses. ipj’v V
Miss Sun Valley, 8th floor, 96 Soadhu liui
berg have steep pitched roofs which I found were necessary be­

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as the bus literally inched its way up the mountain. Traffic was Ave., (Toronto).
cause of the heavy snowfall in this part of Germany. Hotel Goggl
very heavy and the temperature in the bus rose considerably. Euro­ FORELADY, experienced for lad'-:
or the Golden Rooster -was our encampment for the night The
bridge which spans a river gorge over 1000 ft. above the river dresses. Apply: Missy's Choice lOi?
town square was very ancient. Tall town houses rose high on'
431 King Street, 362-1318 (Toronto).
I
passed over our heads. It was part of the super highway which
our sides of the square whose cobblestone streets were laid down
experienced on bew
connects Italy and Austria via another route. There was another OPERATOR
dresses. Apply Miss Sun Valley, 5 mA
°f yeaiS ag°‘ Sma11 sh°Ps abound in the square and neai super highway being built parallel to our road. This road when Spadina
Ave. 8th floor (Toronto).
the hotel, we found a pastry shop which had an assortment of
;cla
opened in another two year’s time will make the transit through
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goodies such as we had never seen. It was in the Goggl that we
e1nne1' -a Sh°rt °ne for the road' is elevated-on pillars and the
saw for the first time a peculiarly European amenity of life called
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a bidette. The bidette is a bathrom fixture which permits the wash­
is costing the government a king’s ransom.
T.V.
technician, experienced, up to te (
ing of one’s private parts without the necessity of going into a
$200 weekly. Phone 244-6692(Toronto). g^g(
Afte meadows and chalets present themselves to
bath tub. It is meant more for the fairer sex, we were informed. It n
ie
raveller
One wonders as he passes how the people ever get
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bers of the tour. The dining room in this ancient inn was very U? J61’6 an< What kind of livi1^ theV make high up on the sides WANTED. Part time job of any kind in fl
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difficult to imagine a more tranquil evenings and weekends. Own trans- V.^
pheasant as was the tavern in which the young members of the "L
portation, please phone 363-8331 be-• i®
and vhat better place is there for getting away from the tween 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. (Toronto).
company spent a few hours before turning in. Since we were still
in Germany, we were again blessed with those wonderfully ubiqu­ tensions of modern living?
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(To Be Continued)
SPECIAL SALE prices on SINGER sei M
ing machines; limited time offer on Ajp
Joe, our guide, roused us at 5:45 the next morning and by
your trade-ins — call — Mrs. Tsu;:mura, 621-0684, SINGER COMPANY ryV
i a.m. the bus and its 50 occupants were rolling through Bavaria
Toronto.
enV
(Continued from Page T)
where houses have religious paintings displayed on their walls.
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Empress Nagako’s poem
The morning tea stop was made in the pretty town of Oberam­
Signs of approaching spring
PROPERTY for sale. All rental
mergau where the townspeople in gratitude for deliverance from In the twilight of an evening Now apparent on earth every­ diate
service. 40
years in business.
sky
Phone HO. 5-9405(Toronto).
Th(
where
some plague stage the Passion Play every ten years. The sun
»r
F
which had been playing hide and seek with us ever since England Appears a lone star glimmering As great stars eternally farawav
ilisi
As I raise my eyes fascinated Begin to shed their light on the
shec
came out in full force and the camera bugs started to snap again. Beyond the majestic roof of the
hearts of mankind.

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the Meshido. (Meshido is the
year’s poet directly named by the
Emperor himself, to -dedicate one
ode to the Imperial Family.)
Walking in the shadows of the
morning stars
My heart is full ,of sorrows
I recall with a prayer
Good peaceful days of Okura.
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Crown Prince Akihito’s poem
In the starlight sky of Peru
Shines the Southern Cross
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Since my childhood days.
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